ANTH 263: Myth and Legend
Study Guide for Test 2
hero twins
axis
mundi
tzolkin
Trobriand
Islands
matrilineality
Malinowski
4 Ahua 8 Cumku
Melford
Spiro
Electra Complex
Hu-Nal-Ye
Jung
Freuds
view of civilization
Popol Vuh
earth
diver
k'u'x
the
sacred Mesoamerican covenant
day-keeper
The
Glutton
Charles Perrault
la
violencia
260 days
world
tree
Paul Delarue
Grimm
Brothers
Signorelli
ladinos
karökö
Peel
Off Flesh, Come Back On
Dokonikan and Tudava Tuluma, the Woodpecker
Numboolyu and Chenchi repression
split self
Mehinaku
Mundurucu
Wakurumpo
family complex
id,
ego, superego
rajav aa
oral,
anal, phallic, latency, genital
werewolf
"pedigogization
of childrens sex"
collective mind
the
Maya creations
Xibalba
Be familiar with the form and meanings behind Figure 5 (all possible mutations of the
family complex) and Figure 9 (the most common form of the family complex found in folk
literature) in Oedipus Ubiquitous.
Know the significant correlations (esp. between stratified and non-stratified societies) in terms of family complex tales as noted by Johnson and Price-Williams.
Be able to explain both psychoanalytic and political interpretations of LRRH and evaluate the respective merits of both.
Be able to explain how the transposability of cultural models works in modern Maya folktale tellings.
Why is mythistory an apt neologism to explain both written and oral Maya traditions?
Be familiar with the motifs and plot structure of the Popol Vuh, and be able to compare and contrast it with Watunna.